A second senior Conservative Kent MP has suggested Parliament be given the chance to say what option for leaving the EU it wants if Theresa May’s Brexit deal is rejected.

Business Secretary and Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark says that if the Commons rejected the Prime Minister’s deal, as some predict, MPs should have a say on what alternatives they want to see pursued.

His comments echo those made by the Ashford MP Damian Green, an ally of the Prime Minister.

He said MPs should have the full range of options to consider if the deal was rejected including the idea of a second referendum.

Mr Clark said: “It’s important once the prime minister has finished her negotiations with other European leaders, and they reach a conclusion, that parliament votes on that.

"If that were not to be successful, we do need to have an agreement. We can’t just have continuing uncertainty.

"I think Parliament should be invited to say what it would agree with.

"That’s something I think businesses up and down the country would expect elected responsibility for, rather than just being critics.”

"I think Parliament should be invited to say what it would agree with..." - Business Secretary Greg Clark

“One way or another, parliament has got to move from essentially being critics of the agreement,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“It is obviously easy to find things you don’t like. But I think every MP now needs to regard themselves as responsible participants.”

His intervention comes as the Prime Minister is expected to announce that she has ruled out the idea of a second referendum.

Speaking last week to KMTV, Mr Green said: “If the deal falls I think we just need the full range of options put before Parliament, including Norway, Canada, a second referendum, a ‘No Deal’ - all of which I think are worse than the current deal.

"So I think it would then be a question of choosing between which is the least bad on offer.”